Earth Tubes Plan B – Day 5
The growing and unstoppable hole continues .. .. We are nearly there! Does anyone want some nice soft sand? Going cheap! Just bring your own 20ton lorry! Day 5 –…
Earth Tubes Plan B – Day 4
With the newly energised Dumper Truck (the battery is now fully charged!) Stephen dashed out to do as possible before the forecasted heavy rain comes!! guess What? No Rain! Stephen…
Earth Tubes Plan B Day 2 and 3
Stephen is working hard in digging the Great Hole! It is a case of doing a few hours in between rain showers and sometimes heavy ones!! But also tackling man…
Earth Tubes Plan B Day 1
We started digging for gold today! The 4.2m wide (over 13 feet) by 18m long (59feet) hole is quite big with a spur (like a capital L) spur for another…
Earth Tubes Approval
We had a flying visit from our Building Control inspector and we had a quick talk about the need to make sure the ground under and around the garage will…
Collapsing trenches
We started to dig the first trench for the earth tubes and as soon as it was full depth the walls started to collapse, a large chunk from the right…
Garage Site Clearance Review
The footprint of the garage and driveway has been cleared. The top soil was removed (about 300mm, a foot) and dumped on the heap which we are now calling Mount…
Earth Tubes Day 1
The deepest job so far and probably ever, is installing the Earth Tubes! We want these to be buried as deep as possible to take advantage of the cool and…
Garage site clearance Day 4 & 5
Day 4 – Thursday 5th August Started the day by doing a repair on the digger which I had been meaning to do for ages. The switch which allows the…
Garage site clearance Day 2 & 3
Started moving the top soil to our spoil heap at the top of the garden. Just load and dump over and over again… Day 2 – Tuesday 3rd August Day…